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2019 Global Peace Index: Trending Upwards
Peace is something that always presents a challenge to measure. It is hard to obtain an accurate view or estimate of global peace when it can be defined in many different ways. The Global Peace Index (GPI) seeks to measure and quantify...
Stopping As Success: What is required for a conducive space for local agency and power?
Isabella Jean from the “Stopping As Success” consortium, shares her reflections from a recent meeting on local agency and power and discusses the organizational practices that require attention in order to strengthen inclusive and locally driven peacebuilding and development processes. There were...
Freedom and the Media 2019: A Downward Spiral
Threats to media freedom are having dangerous impacts on the state of democracy worldwide. The Freedom House report, Freedom and the Media 2019, finds that leaders intent on consolidating power are finding new ways to repress independent journalism in democracies and authoritarian...
Stopping As Success: Capacity development in international transitions: can it be used to shift the norm?
In this article, Grace Boone of CDA Collaborative Learning, part of the “Stopping As Success” consortium, discusses capacity development in transitions, particularly focusing on the theme of psycho-social support for local actors given on behalf of INGOs during the transition. “Local staff...
Stopping As Success: “If the forest survives, we survive”: locally-led development in Bangladesh
In this article, Salem Osseiran of Peace Direct, part of the “Stopping As Success” consortium, discusses the theme of community agency in transitions, reflecting on a recent case study research visit to Bangladesh. “Stopping As Success” has, over the past two years,...
Stopping As Success: INGOs as yeast, not the flour
Kiely Barnard-Webster and Isabella Jean of CDA Collaborative Learning, part of the “Stopping As Success” consortium, discuss their aims for the research project and dissect previous findings on aid exits. In 2012, CDA’s book Time to Listen: Hearing People on the Receiving End...
Stopping As Success: Perspectives on Aid from the Philippines
Farzana Ahmed, Senior Researcher at Peace Direct who are leading the “Stopping As Success” learning project, reports on conversations she had with aid actors at a SAS convened workshop in the Philippines in April this year. How should we define “local” and...
Call for Proposals: PeaceCon 2019
PeaceCon 2019: “Seizing the Moment for Peace in a Disrupted World” When: 2 - 4 October Where: Washington, DC, USA Proposals Due: 20 May From Alliance for Peacebuilding: "PeaceCon 2019 will feature the world’s most inspiring and experienced national and local peacebuilders. Together,...
The PEC Data Visualizations Series
With support from the Carnegie Corporation of New York, through the Peacebuilding Evaluation Consortium, the DME for Peace team has worked to turn some of the most accessed resources on the site's resource library into data visualizations and graphic summaries. This project...
An Analysis of the Use of Social Media in Indonesia and a Social Media Use Needs Assessment for At-Risk Groups
Search for Common Ground Indonesia has recently completed research on social media use and a needs assessment among at risk groups in Indonesia. The research is a component of its 24-month long project aimed at reducing the influence of violent extremist narratives...
Freedom in the World 2018: Democracy in Crisis
"Political rights and civil liberties around the world deteriorated to their lowest point in more than a decade in 2017, extending a period characterized by emboldened autocrats, beleaguered democracies, and the United States’ withdrawal from its leadership role in the global struggle...
The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism (2018)
Governments around the world are tightening control over citizens’ data and using claims of “fake news” to suppress dissent, eroding trust in the internet as well as the foundations of democracy. "Disinformation and propaganda disseminated online have poisoned the public sphere. The...